Machine DEAD or comatose Help

by gizmops Sep 10, 2004 3:11AM PDT

Something I forgot.

I had to recently replace the CPU Fan, I also bought the Maxtor Hard drive as the WD80 was showing a permanet blue screen and installed XP home as my XP Pro wouldnt install, the machine then repaired the fault and I disconnected the new Maxtor 6Y120. It doesnt make a difference whether both hard drives are connected or the main WD80.

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(NT) (NT) why make a 2nd same name msg? just add this to your 1st

by ChuckT Sep 10, 2004 3:16AM PDT

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Re: (NT) why make a 2nd same name msg? just add this to your

by gizmops Sep 10, 2004 3:50AM PDT

Sorry, I couldnt figure out how to do that. Can it be done now

Ralph

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Ralph, For Reference: Here's Your Original Post...

by Grif Thomas Forum moderator Sep 10, 2004 4:28AM PDT

Although this is a little backwards, it should allow us to keep this in one thread. I'll delete your other post so folks don't get confused.
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Machine DEAD or comatose Help

Win XP Pro sp1
Processor
1.5 gig AMD Athlon XP
128 kb primary memory cache. 256 kb secondary mem cache
Hard drives
Western Digital WD800BB-00CAA1
Maxtor 6Y120LO
Lite ON LTR-48246S CD ROM Drive
Toshiba DVD Rom SD-M1712
3.3 floppy drive
Controllers
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller
VIA USB 2.0 Enhances Host Controller
Main Circuit Board
Board : MSI MS-6712 1.0
Bus Clock : 100 mhz
Bios : American Megatrends Inc. Version 07.00T 04/02/01
Memory
1024 megabytes installed
slot `0` has 512 MB
slot `1` has 512 MB
slot `2` is empty
Display
NVIDIA GeForce Ti 4200 with AGP8X

The system was working fine3 days ago. Next morning I turned it on and nothing. Screen only shows RGB test and status ok.
Floppy drive does not start.
CD Rom light comes on.
DVD Rom light comes on.
Power unit fan runs, CPU fan runs.
Otherwise nothing.

Where do I start. Nothing has been disturbed inside the tower , i cannot reboot as floppy fails to operate.

HELP
Thanks ralph

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Hope this helps.

Grif

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That's a LOT of power required.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 10, 2004 4:47AM PDT

I'd guess you have a 450 or better Watt supply?

Next? You'll need to disturb the machine a LOT. I'd remove a stick of RAM, the CDROM units, the second hard disk and then reseat all the cards and see if it beeps and boots.

Bob

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Re: That's a LOT of power required.

by gizmops Sep 16, 2004 3:40AM PDT

Hi Bob,

Many thanks for your suggestions.

The problem is now sorted, the motherboard was dead and also fried my original hard drive. I now have the machine back running on the new hard drive but have lost all my files, photos, music etc.
On testing the new motherboard all the old harddrive did was to get hot. I want to find a place where my data can be recovered if the price is reasonable.

Best wished

ralph

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